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Monday, April 20, 2015

Finally: List of 80 People With as Much Money as 1/2 of Humanity

If the system were not rigged to produce pocket billionaires, one may consider the list of names here as testaments to hard work and dedication. But banking families, who have trillions of dollars in wealth are suspiciously absent from the below list. For me this is just one more data point lending further credence to the notion the whole system is a gigantic musical chairs game, with the real players never getting up when the music starts.

Bernie Sanders is of course a socialist and as such believes you make people better off by taking it from someone else. That is not my agenda. That's been tried in Russia and China and they just ended up poorer. The politics of envy and class struggle is another form of keeping people believing they have no power.Many of these on this list would have a very different ranking if the USD were not the world's reserve currency and artificially high as a result of that. Not all wealthy people inherited it, not all got because of great crimes of history, some worked very hard for it all. And money is a perception, wealth is not the number of FRNs in your bank account, a lot of very wealthy people have an equally large (or more) amount of debt owed. And truly mind boggling wealthy people don't show any wealth much at all, for its all hidden behind "charitable trusts" and the like.... still this is a very interesting list of where much of the wealth of this planet is concentrated. The list however seems to leave out the 13 western banking families, and the dragon families... and concentrates on those who are politically active in visible ways... -AK

Since the “financial repression,” the most powerful people have only gotten more powerful. A 2013 Oxfam report found that 80 people had as much wealth as 1/2 of humanity, and a few months later Forbes said the number had dropped to 67.Many of us asked who exactly these people are, and now the list has been released.

RANK NAME 2014 WEALTH COUNTRY SELF-MADE? SECTOR (IN BILLIONS)

1 Bill Gates $76 USA ✓ Tech

2 Carlos Slim Helu $72 Mexico ✓ Telecom

3 Amancio Ortega $64 Spain ✓ Retail

4 Warren Buffett $58 USA ✓ Finance

5 Larry Ellison $48 USA ✓ Tech

6 Charles Koch $40 USA Diversified

7 David Koch $40 USA Diversified

8 Sheldon Adelson $38 USA ✓ Entertainment

9 Christy Walton $37 USA Retail

10 Jim Walton $35 USA Retail

11 Liliane Bettencourt $35 France Product

12 Stefan Persson $34 Sweden Retail

13 Alice Walton $34 USA Retail

14 S. Robson Walton $34 USA Retail

15 Bernard Arnault $34 France Luxury

16 Michael Bloomberg $33 USA ✓ Finance

17 Larry Page $32 USA ✓ Tech

18 Jeff Bezos $32 USA ✓ Retail

19 Sergey Brin $32 USA ✓ Tech

20 Li Ka-shing $31 Hong Kong ✓ Diversified

21 Mark Zuckerberg $29 USA ✓ Tech

22 Michele Ferrero $27 Italy Food

23 Aliko Dangote $25 Nigeria ✓ Commodities

24 Karl Albrecht $25 Germany ✓ Retail

25 Carl Icahn $25 USA ✓ Finance

26 George Soros $23 USA ✓ Finance

27 David Thomson $23 Canada Media

28 Lui Che Woo $22 Hong Kong ✓ Entertainment

29 Dieter Schwarz $21 Germany Retail

30 Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud $20 Saudi Arabia ✓ Finance

31 Forrest Mars Jr. $20 USA Food

32 Jacqueline Mars $20 USA Food

33 John Mars $20 USA Food

34 Jorge Paulo Lemann $20 Brazil ✓ Drinks

35 Lee Shau Kee $20 Hong Kong ✓ Diversified

36 Steve Ballmer $19 USA ✓ Tech

37 Theo Albrecht Jr. $19 Germany Retail

38 Leonardo Del Vecchio $19 Italy ✓ Luxury

39 Len Blavatnik $19 USA ✓ Diversified

40 Alisher Usmanov $19 Russia ✓ Extractives

41 Mukesh Ambani $19 India Extractives

42 Masayoshi Son $18 Japan ✓ Telecom

43 Michael Otto $18 Germany Retail

44 Phil Knight $18 USA ✓ Retail

45 Tadashi Yanai $18 Japan ✓ Retail

46 Gina Rinehart $18 Australia Extractives

47 Mikhail Fridman $18 Russia ✓ Extractives

48 Michael Dell $18 USA ✓ Tech

49 Susanne Klatten $17 Germany Cars

50 Abigail Johnson $17 USA Finance

51 Viktor Vekselberg $17 Russia ✓ Metals

52 Lakshmi Mittal $17 India Metals

53 Vladimir Lisin $17 Russia ✓ Transport

54 Cheng Yu-tung $16 Hong Kong ✓ Diversified

55 Joseph Safra $16 Brazil ✓ Finance

56 Paul Allen $16 USA ✓ Tech

57 Leonid Mikhelson $16 Russia ✓ Extractives

58 Anne Cox Chambers $16 USA Media

59 Francois Pinault $16 France ✓ Retail

60 Iris Fontbona $16 Chile Extractives

61 Azim Premji $15 India Tech

62 Mohammed Al Amoudi $15 Saudi Arabia ✓ Extractives

63 Gennady Timchenko $15 Russia ✓ Extractives

64 Wang Jianlin $15 China ✓ Real Estate

65 Charles Ergen $15 USA ✓ Telecom

66 Stefan Quandt $15 Germany Cars

67 Germán Larrea Mota Velasco $15 Mexico Extractives

68 Harold Hamm $15 USA ✓ Extractives

69 Ray Dalio $14 USA ✓ Finance

70 Donald Bren $14 USA ✓ Real Estate

71 Georg Schaeffler $14 Germany Product

72 Luis Carlos Sarmiento $14 Colombia ✓ Finance

73 Ronald Perelman $14 USA ✓ Finance

74 Laurene Powell Jobs $14 USA Entertainment

75 Serge Dassault $14 France Aviation

76 John Fredriksen $14 Cyprus ✓ Transport

77 Vagit Alekperov $14 Russia ✓ Extractives

78 John Paulson $14 USA ✓ Finance

79 Rupert Murdoch $14 USA ✓ Media

80 Ma Huateng $13 China ✓ TechThese are the same people, very likely, keeping the “filter” on our representative democracy. Do you feel uncomfortable about the fact that many of these people have seen their wealth increase drastically while at the same time the middle class shrinks and “austerity” is demanded almost globally outside of Sweden and Norway. It makes me feel uncomfortable that the political influence of these people have served to increase their wealth and weaken regulations, and I suggest we seek meaningful changes on a systemic level.

What Bernie Sanders had to say in his meme about wealth inequality is true, and it is most certainly not an accident.

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